WITH FIVE million pilgrims passing through its mighty portals every year, the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua is one of the world’s most popular Catholic shrines. This influx of devotees...
ACCORDING to an old story, “On the night of the feast of St. Anthony, the Guardian of the friars in Padua, brother Bartholomew of Corradino, was spending the night in vigil at the Ark (the Tomb...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: Despite my young age (I am 22) I have been working since I was 18. I am very happy to be working because it allows me to be financially independent from my parents. Lately I have...
DEAR FRIAR RICK:A few months ago, Hilary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, rightly condemned an anti-Islam film saying it was “disgusting and...
THE DAWN of a new year is an ideal time to establish the resolution to make every day count. Consider this experience of part time pizza deliverer Hong Fei Li who had a day he would never...
ONE OF THE points of tension in the Scriptures – the Old Testament especially – is that, on the one hand, God chooses particular people to forward His purposes, yet He does so only to...
